Cervical cancer screening is one of the most significant public health accomplishments of the 20th century. Over the last 50 years, incidence and mortality rates from cervical cancer in the US have decreased by more than 50%1 because of widespread use of the Papanicolaou test and later adoption...
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New Cervical Cancer Screening Guidelines From the US Department of Health and Human Services: Strengthening Women’s Preventive Health
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Online Unsupervised Tai Chi Intervention for Knee Pain and Function in People With Knee Osteoarthritis: The RETREAT Randomized Clinical Trial
Importance Tai chi is a type of exercise recommended for knee osteoarthritis, but access to in-person tai chi can be limited.
Objective To evaluate the effects of an unsupervised multimodal online tai chi intervention on knee pain and function for people with knee osteoarthritis.
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Chronic kidney disease
Globally, the prevalence of chronic kidney disease is estimated to be approximately 850 million cases, with approximately 4 million individuals needing kidney replacement therapy for kidney failure. By 2050, chronic kidney disease is projected to become the fifth leading underlying cause of...
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Measles 2025
Measles is a highly contagious virus with a primary case reproduction number (i.e., the average number of secondary cases per case patient) of 12 to 18. It is currently spreading rapidly owing to reduced measles vaccination coverage, which is due primarily to the disruption of local immunization...
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Addressing Faith-Based Concerns about Vaccination
Religious beliefs are cited as one cause of declining vaccination rates, and religious participation has been associated with hesitancy to receive vaccines. However, many personal vaccine objections attributed to faith-based reasons are more likely matters of personal faith interpretation rather...
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Continuous Glucose Monitoring
This JAMA Insights discusses continuous glucose monitoring use among individuals with type 2 diabetes, including types of devices, evidence of effectiveness, and adverse effects and contraindications.
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What Parents and Teens Need to Know About Testicular Pain
This JAMA Pediatrics Patient Page describes the symptoms and treatment for testicular torsion in boys.
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Approach to pelvic venous disorders
Objective: To provide a practical guide to help family physicians recognize, diagnose, and manage patients with pelvic venous disorders (PeVDs), often overlooked as causes of chronic pelvic pain and varicose veins.
Sources of information: This review is based on guidelines from the...
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Pharmacologic Treatment of Perinatal Depression
Approximately 1 in 7 individuals are affected by perinatal depression, defined as a depressive episode occurring during pregnancy or within 12 months after delivery. Although the diagnostic criteria are similar to those of major depressive disorder, perinatal depression may also include symptoms...
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Long QT Syndrome
To assess a physician’s expertise on the basis of whether the doctor checks a patient’s QT interval would be excessive, but the fact remains that in many cases, checking it saves lives. The author of a respected textbook on electrocardiography1 wrote, “The measurement of the QT interval has...
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